Create a pie chart in BlueDolphin

This shows how to create a pie chart in BlueDolphin reporting. The method can be used for any pie chart, but in this example I’ll create the Operating system distribution of node (servers), more specific Virtual Machine on VMWare.

In order to create this exact report you need to Node (or server) in your convention model with “operating system” in a questionnaire and “type” as a property.

Go to the report section of BlueDolphin and click the “+” to create a new report (Ad Hoc View).

Then click the “graph” icon on top of the report to select the visualization type. Close the select screen after you’ve selected the Pie chart type.

Right click on Title and select “use as measure”. This will move the Title to measures, which means it can now count the numbers of titles instead of just display the values.

Right click the newly created measure “Title” and select “add to columns”.

Select the property for which you want to know the occurrences (number of objects/titles). I select “Operating System” in General (Node). Right click this and select “add to rows”.

As BlueDolphin has only one “objects table” we want to filter the objects. Right click the “definition” of the objects collection and select “create filter”. Select the object type you want to report on, in this case Node.

Optionally you can add more filters, like here on (object property) “type” = “VMware Virtual Machine”. Press “Apply” to make the filters active.

The last thing you need to do it set the data level to its maximum. This means it will count the distinct occurrences of the rows, in this example the piechart shows the number of Nodes with type “VMware Virtual Machine” per “Operating System”.

“Click to add a title” and fill in an appropriate title, e.g. “Operating System Distribution”.

Save the report with “save ad hoc view as” and give it an appropriate name. Select <your tenant name>\reports as the save location. Once saved successfully, refresh the browser to confirm it is visible.

That’s it. Now every time you open the reports tab in BlueDolphin you can open the report you’ve just created and it will be updated with the latest data of BlueDolphin.